Gym Class Heroes Hype Their New Album At MTV's Woodie Awards

November 13, 2007 4:35 p.m. EST

Topics: Music
New York, NY (CNS) - According to Gym Class Heroes front man Travis McCoy, the band's highly anticipated follow-up album to 2006's "As Cruel as School Children" will "surprise a lot of people."

McCoy sat down with MTV News at last week's mtvU Woodie Awards, an award show honoring the music that college students loved the most this year, and the Gym Class Heroes took home the nights top honor winning Woodie of the Year.

In the interview, McCoy revealed that the new unnamed album will include collaborations with artists like Ne-Yo and Busta Rhymes.

"We're doing a bunch of preproduction, and it's going real good thus far. I think people are going to be stoked by it. We just did a track down in Miami with Cool & Dre. Busta Rhymes is on it. It's going to surprise a lot of people," McCoy said. "This is me reaching out right now, but we're hoping to get Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys on the record, Daryl Hall on the record. ... And we're looking forward to writing a couple of songs with Ne-Yo; we got to be good friends with him through the VMA's."

The Gym Class Heroes formed in 1997 when McCoy met drummer Matt McGinley in Geneva, New York. The band went on to enjoy tremendous success with their third album "As Cruel as School Children," which featured hit tracks "Cupid's Chokehold," and "Clothes Off."

"It's just gonna be a real, real solid record. The demos we have now are just bananas," McCoy continued. "[Guitarist] Dasashi [Lumumba-Kasongo] is just a monster on the new stuff. You're going to hear a lot more of him singing on this one and a lot more of his guitar skills that I don't think he really got to flex on the last record."